Hezekiah Niles

Fascinating reading the collected editions of this comprehensive weekly newspaper for 1833: An early update in each issue is what states and cities have been most assaulted by cholera; winners of nominations and of elections are listed; news of the world — Turkey, Egypt, Syria, China, India, Poland, Russia —and attempts on the life of the Emperor, as well as France, Germany, Italy, Portugal; news of Canada; of American Indians (Native Americans; of demands to end slavery, and bitter arguments against ending it, by whites and free blacks north and south, as well as discussions of the Liberian "project"; shipping: inventions: travel of dignitaries domestic and foreign; the end of the trade monopoly of the British East India Company, especially in India and China.… (més)